[ThreatPost]Report: Syrian Government Using Targeted Skype Attacks, Malware To Spy On Dissidents

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Report: Syrian Government Using Targeted Skype Attacks, Malware To Spy On Dissidents

<p>In a post on the F-Secure Labs blog, Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen says the firm received a hard drive image from a "contact" within Syria who believed that his computer had been compromised. An F-Secure analysis of the drive's contents and Web history revealed evidence of a targeted attack that used a malicious Skype chat link to install a copy of Xtreme RAT, a remote access tool that's commercially available online.</p><div class="field field-type-text field-field-short-description">
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                    <p>A report from anti virus firm F-Secure offers proof that malicious software is being pushed to political dissidents in targeted attacks - the first evidence that the embattled government is using cyber attacks to help squelch a domestic political uprising.&nbsp;</p>        </div>
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